What We Don't See on TV

President George W. Bush raised nearly half a million dollars for Representatives Jim Gerlach and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania last Wednesday at a $1000-per-ticket fund-raiser. Here is what he said.

A battlefront in the war on terror is, of course, Iraq. And people in our country are unsettled because of the war, and I understand that. I fully understand why people in America are disquieted about what they're seeing on their TV screens. There's a concern about whether or not we can win. There's no doubt in my mind we will win...
The enemy cannot defeat us on the battlefield, but what they can do is put horrible images on our TV screens.

Honestly, I wonder about reporting this sort of thing. So an insane bigot tried to do something impossible. He's not a politician, he's not powerful, nobody knows who the fuck he is, what he did will have no effect on anybody. He's just a pathetic blowhard maneuvering for attention. How is this news again? How is this going to result in anything but someone with no power getting harrassed and hunted down by the internet posse? And how does that reflect anything but poorly on this site?

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, guys. This is beneath you - or so I'd like to think. But maybe I'm wrong.

Man, if they really were secretly pushing the god-awful agenda that Underwood depicts, they would at least make him a more sympathetic character. He makes Tony Soprano and Walter White look like angels in comparison. It's shocking to see any politician blatantly refer to the programs we've paid for our entire lives (Social Security, Medicare) with the weasel word "entitlements," and having Underwood do it so aggressively only adds to the scumbaggery of his image.

If the show's consultants are really pushing any elements that agenda, the joke is clearly on them.